Is it just me or does the Duolingo bird looks sad/old/tired? What happened to the previous icon?
They got you talking about Duolingo. That’s why they changed it.
Duolingo keeps doing mass layoffs, so the bird is overworked. You can help him out by switching to a language learning app that actually helps you learn a language instead of endlessly throwing flash cards at you without teaching you anything! Win win.
I’ve been working on my Spanish with practice from some of my coworkers and patients. So far Duolingo’s “flash cards” have actually been pretty helpful, but I grant that some of the actual "instruction"isn’t there. I went from really rudimentary Spanish to being able to conduct a patient evaluation in Spanish as long as it’s straight forward.
Everyone shits on Duo but I’ve found it to be a really helpful practice tool myself.
What app do you recommend? I’ve seen good progress with duolingo since I upgraded to premium but I’m willing to try something different
Busuu is much better. It feels like it actually tries to teach you the language in an efficient way, instead of teaching you useless phrases like “my owl never paints” and waisting your time
I mean Duolingo does not teach you to memorize that phrase. It teaches you the structure of the language and words so you can start making phrases on your own
Edit: didn’t mean to sound to dismissive, I’ll give it a try, thanks for the recommendation
Attention grabbing apparently.
https://stealthoptional.com/apps/duolingo-icon-looks-sad-old/
Changing the Duolingo icon to look sad, old, and wrinkled is a strategy to make users curious, so they open the app to see if there are new updates or content. In other words, Duo is only trying to get your attention.
This tactic is rooted in the psychological effect known as the “novelty effect,” where new stimuli can temporarily increase engagement and motivation. Snapchat similarly employs this strategy with the red dot and yellow dot on the Bitmoji.
It just reminded me how long it had been since I’d launched it so I just uninstalled it lmao
Makes sense. My partner was showing it to me “see? It’s probably because I’ve got notifications muted” unmutes notifications, “no that isn’t it” then I suggested they complete a lesson to see if it changed and it still didn’t, so she put it away. Later I heard that the app notified her that two of her friends congratulated her for starting to again.
It’s a cute program, but wow does it hector people.
It’s my fault, y’all. I’m sorry.
I recently started using Duolingo to learn Spanish, and it’s clinically proven I ruin everything I touch, so I think I’m killing the bird…
Oh, I thought it’s because I stopped opening it daily and broke my streaks lol
